In seven representative episodes of black masculine literary and cultural history--from the founding of the first African American Masonic lodge in 1775 to the 1990s choreographies of modern dance genius Bill T. Jones--"Constructing the Black Masculine" maps black men's historical efforts to negotiate the frequently discordant relationship between blackness and maleness in the cultural logic of American identity. Maurice O. Wallace draws on an impressive variety of material to investigate the survivalist strategies employed by black men who have had to endure the disjunction between race and...
In seven representative episodes of black masculine literary and cultural history--from the founding of the first African American Masonic lodge in 17...
In seven representative episodes of black masculine literary and cultural history--from the founding of the first African American Masonic lodge in 1775 to the 1990s choreographies of modern dance genius Bill T. Jones--"Constructing the Black Masculine" maps black men's historical efforts to negotiate the frequently discordant relationship between blackness and maleness in the cultural logic of American identity. Maurice O. Wallace draws on an impressive variety of material to investigate the survivalist strategies employed by black men who have had to endure the disjunction between race and...
In seven representative episodes of black masculine literary and cultural history--from the founding of the first African American Masonic lodge in 17...
Pictures and Progress explores how, during the nineteenth century and the early twentieth, prominent African American intellectuals and activists understood photography's power to shape perceptions about race and employed the new medium in their quest for social and political justice. They sought both to counter widely circulating racist imagery and to use self-representation as a means of empowerment. In this collection of essays, scholars from various disciplines consider figures including Frederick Douglass, Sojourner Truth, Ida B. Wells, Paul Laurence Dunbar, and W. E. B. Du Bois...
Pictures and Progress explores how, during the nineteenth century and the early twentieth, prominent African American intellectuals and activis...
